Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-14
, NUMBER F[FfY-FOUR.
SeaborH Green, Creek Indian, and
Silas Hampton, a Chickasaw, Hung
for Murders Committed.
The Men Firm Up to the Time OF
Ascending the Seaffold, When
Hampton SheWs Weakness.
Confession Made by Hsmpton-Detailed
History or the Grimes for Which the
Men Died.

| tORF SMITHj AK, OCE. I.--SeaDOTH
Green, alias Cali Joe, Greek Indian, and
Silas Hampton, ChikcasaW Indian, were
| hung here this afternoon for murder CON-
mitted in the Indian Territory. The hour
was set for 2 O'Clock, but owing to the
fact that the death warrant had to be
read to them through interpreters they
were not taken from the jail until after
the hour. Dressed in neat, new black
suits, with the
BLOOM OF YOUTH
on their cheeks, they were conducted TO
the gsliows, walking erect and uncon-
cerned, where they assembled the steps
leading to the death-trap without s ire
NOR. Rev Smith OF the Catholic church,
| The spiritual adviser Of Secborn, con-
| Quoted the services to his subjects
| through an Interpreter, while another in
| terpeter translated to Silss Hampton
| what his spiritual adviser, Rev. J. G.
| Massey OF the Methodist church, read.
After the singing OF hymn and prayer
| Oy Rev. Massey. the condemned men
were brought forward on the trap, where
Rev. Father Smith continued MS religious
| instructions while the legs and arms of
| the men
WERE BEING PINIoNED,
st conclusion of which they were each
asked if they had anything to say. Hsmp-
ton said he had made his peace with his
God and was ready to die. Sea
| born said not & word, bur
began to weaken Just before
the trap was sprung, though up to that
time his countenance wore pleasant
smile and he did not display the least
fear.
TEE DROP FELL
at 2:35 and both necks were broken.
| Both men dying almost without strug-
gle. The execution WAS witnessed by
| about 150 persons, includiag attending
| physicians, reporters and doctors. There
being in the crowd five
NEATLY DRESSED LADIES.
Up to last night Hampton had made nc
confession of the crime, and to-day your
reporter visited the jail at IL 80 q. m.
with al interpreter ana calling Hampton
| to the bars asked if he was guilty OF
| numbering Lloyd, when ne made the fol
| loving statement: "I had been married
about one month and had just got Ger
tificate from the inGge, and was on ICY
way home. I passed the camp of the
white man and saw him sitting by the
fire. stepped in about thirty feet OF
| him and
'-- SHOT HIM IN TIE BACK,
killing him. l then took his money, 81
or SO, as near as 1 csn remember. don't
know how I came to take his Ilfe."
He was then asked why he killed his
vic i'm, and replied tnat he did not have
anything against him End did not
\ SUhn he
| that there were too many whites in the
Territory, and that q man named Frank
Greenwood had told him TO kill the
whites. Ia closing the interview ne SAID
81 have been praying ever since l was put
| in Jail. l killed the white man for moth.
| ing and an willing to die, and want e.
pay for the blood Of the white man with
my own blood. l am willing and ready
to be hung" This makes fifty four mer
who have been hung here by the Federal
court.
TIE CRIMES
for which these young iaen today atOned
with thHir lives were OF most atrocious
and blood-thirsty Character, and their
| punishment is well merited. The follow
ing is & brief statement Of their cases:
| THE sEABRON GREEN CASE.
1
18th of Janusry last Deputy United States
@arshGl Phillips, with Marx Kuykendsll,
Henry Smith aud William Kelley as posse
ana guards, was on duty il the Greek Ms
ton, the only prisoner they hsd being
Seabron Green, who had surrendered 60
them for the purpose Of coming to Forl
Smith to answer to an indictment of ID
| Producing and selling whisky in the Indian
| ia.
the afternoon of the 17sh on business,
| leaving the three guards end prisoner il
camp. On the following morning he re-
turned to fad his three companions muir
dered and the prisoner gone; also some
,, of the property belonging 10 the party
| Smith and KuykenGall were killed with sn
exc IS they lay ssleep on pallet nesr the
camp fire, their heads being almost Sc
vered from their bodies. KaIly's dead
body lay in C. pool Of blood about twelve
steps from the other two. He had beeD
shot and also mutilated with an axe
The murderer had piled burning fsggots
from the camp fire on the legs CT Smith
and KuYkendall, evidently intending to
burn them up, and their lower eXtremitiee
from their waist down were completely
roasted. Phillips buried his companions
near where they met their horrible fate
and soon re-arrested Seabron. He stated
that during the night some men came tC
the camp and killed the officers and hs
escaped to the woods. He was brought
here and placed in jail, and few days
afterWard Doctor Walker and Jost
Ohoola, also Greek Indians, were ar
rested as accessories to the murders
some OF the property taken from TIT
camp being found under Walkers house,
Walker claiming that Ohoola brought ii
there. Al the EXAMINATION before the
Commissioner, however, Seabr5a stated
that he Wss guilty, having killed tha men
himself, and when placed On the witness
stand az the trisl, testified to the fact.
saying ne killed them without assistance,
his only excuse being that they hzd
abused him. Walker is SasbroG's uncle
AID Oaools is slso a rei2s,ve, and soma
are Inclined 10 tbiGE tiiSE Sea5ron s4Cri-
feed his eva lifa - s5ieid fns1a. Al
tIree OF tseTu were triSd j2iafly, au5 t2S
jury acquitted walker ana OaooIs, cen.
victing Sssbron, the verdict being rem
dered on the 18Th of July last. Sesbror
was mere boy, net more than eighteen
years Of age, ignorant and half civilized
u SILAS HAMPTON
was full-blOOd CnickasaW about th'
same age as SeabroD. He was con-
victed on the 9th OF July last OF mos
disbolical murder, his victim being 81
old man named Abner N. Lloyd, who wa
over sixty years OF age. Tie murde